Sébastien Jondeau, assistant to Karl Lagerfeld in Paris for decades, reveals what the German fashion designer thought about death.
“He wanted to die like the elephants – just disappear,” says the 50 -year -old in the new 3sat documentary ‘Karl – The man behind the mask’, who has been online since Saturday (May 10th) and is on TV on May 24th.
“Nobody should ever find out where he is. He liked the fact that the animals go die and just disappear. You don’t know where they go to die. He did something similar,” says Jondeau. “Do you know where he’s today? No? Just.” So Lagerfeld succeeded in disappearing. He knew where Karl’s ash is still, says Jondeau.
The Lagerfeld, which was once born in Hamburg, died on February 19, 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. The ashes were probably scattered in a secret place. There is no tombstone and no memorial.
“He wanted his ashes to be dealt with in a certain way,” says Jondeau in the documentary by Gero von Boehm. “I took it to heart. And I will respect that until I disappear from this world. It was his wish – and I fulfilled it.”
Jondeau and Lagerfeld met in 1999. The young man from the Paris Banlieue became bodyguard, assistant, driver and closer confidante for the following 20 years – until the day of death. Jondeau already wrote a book (‘Ça Va, Cher Karl? Memories of Karl Lagerfeld’).
Lagerfeld himself had announced more often that he should only remain ashes-in 2011 in a ‘Playboy’ interview, for example, he formulated this: “horrific, cockchafer in the body, no, thank you.”